Churn agitator



Aug. 30, 1955 N. c. DORROUGH CHURN AGITATOR Filed March 23, 1955 UnitedStates Patent CHURN AGITATOR Nell Collum Dorrough, Cullman, Ala.

Application March 23, 1953, Serial No. 343,985

1 Claim. (Cl. 259-134) This invention relates to a churn agitator. Ithas for its main objects to provide such an agitator that will be highlysatisfactory for the purpose intended, simple in structure, cheap tomanufacture, easy to install in a churn for use, and extremely durable.

Further objects are to provide such an agitator adapted for use inchurns of different depths and capacities.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the drawing anddescription.

By referring generally to the drawing it will be observed that Fig. 1 isa plan view of Fig. 2 with the top removed.

and assuming Fig. 2 to be fully round; Fig. 2 is a vertical view showingthe churn container in section and the agitator assembly in full; Fig. 3is a view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2 showing the upper dasher of theagitator; Fig. 4 is a side view of the upper dasher; Fig. 5 is a view online 5-5 of Fig. 2 showing the lower portion dasher; Fig. 6 is a view online 66 of Fig. 2 of the bottom dasher; and Fig. 7 is an elevationalview of the tube assembly for supporting the dashers with the bottomdasher thereon.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the severalviews.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that the agitatorassembly comprises three pieces of tube, 1, 2 and 3, and three dashers,4, 5 and 6. The tubes are assembled telescope fashion as shown in Figs.2 and 7. The tubes are held in place by wing screws 7 and 8. The dashersare held in place by wing screws 9, 10 and 11. The assembled agitator isadapted for use in a churn 12 with top 13.

' rust-proof metal.

assembly is adjustable in length and the dashers are adapted for use inmany positions on the supporting tubes.

The parts of the agitator may be made of any material suitable for thepurpose, but I prefer to use light weight Also the parts may be made indifferent sizes and capacities depending on the sizes of the churncontainers in which to be used.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of myinvention, I do not wish to limit same to the exact and precise detailsof structure, and reserve the right to make all modifications andchanges so long as they remain within the scope of the invention and thefollowing claim.

Having described my invention I claim:

An agitator assembly of the character described for use in combinationwith a churn comprising, three pieces of tube mounted together telescopefashion, one tube piece being the upper and the largest in diameter, onetube piece being the middle and of less diameter than the upper pieceand being of a size to fit slidably in the upper piece, one tube piecebeing the lower end of less diameter than the middle piece and being ofa size to fit slidably within the middle piece, two wing screws mountedin the upper piece and adapted for manual setting to hold the middlepiece in fixed position in the upper piece, a wing screw mounted in themiddle piece and adapted for manual setting to hold the lower piece infixed position in the middle piece, a two-wing dasher with a wing screwmounted in its side and attached adjustably on the upper tube piece, afour wing dasher with a wing screw in its side and attached adjustablyon the lower tube piece, a second two wing dasher with a wing screw inits side and attached adjustably on the lower end of the lower piece oftube.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,065,806 Hollingsworth June 24, 1913 2,441,727 Snow May 18, 19482,448,927 Fischer Sept. 7, 1948 2,498,570 Myers Feb. 21, 1950

